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LX200 12" GPS

Advantages: GOTO makes faint fuzzies easy, more time for observing.
Disadvantages: Heavy, just carryable by one if you are strongish.

The Meade 12" LX200GPS with UHTC (£3999) is a big beast of a scope. It is a Schmidt Cassegrain telescope, which basically means it has a conveniently short tube, about 20" for the 12" (the 12" is the diameter of the tube) model. At the bottom end of the t ...

nikauuk 04.07.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Meade LX200

Meade Telescope

Advantages: many many
Disadvantages: none

...After many years of saving extremely large quantities of money at my job at the cider factory, I made the purchase of a Meade 12" telescope. The telescope retails at approximately £4000 if purchased new but I was able to fortunately buy one from a deligh ...

daveboxer 11.06.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Meade LX200

Great telescope for serious amateurs

Advantages: Easy to use and good for beginners
Disadvantages: Quite expensive for a decent size

...a 10" LX200 Meade as part of my astrophysics course. It's easy to use and simple to start finding your way around the sky. It's quick to set up after the intitial input of data such as your latitude and longtitude etc. It can b ...

rach150384 22.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Meade LX200

intergalactic pursuits

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A great telescope this one sure to catch a few Unidentified flying objects and even ET may make an appearance if you go out and buy this rather special telescope! I do like astronomy its fantastic t think of all of the world's out there we haven't yet dis ...

Marshman 03.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Meade DS-80EC

Start the ball rolling PLEASE

Advantages: We need info to help each other
Disadvantages: I got money and dont know what to spend it on

Ok honestly first...this is not really a review at all, i know this is not what CIAO is really for but I need help. I have been looking around for a telescope and its getting a little confusing, it then struck me that i had not even thought to check CIAO ...

JasperUK 04.07.2001 · Read full review
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